Word: dicta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every quick complaint, there was a quiet and reasoned reminder that ever since Escobedo, police across the country have been opening their station rooms and doing their best to live up to the high standards of the court's dicta. Denver's Police Chief Harold Dill said that the decision was "nothing earthshaking. We generally follow that pattern anyway." Said Atlanta's Chief of Detectives Clinton Chafin: "We've been operating that way for some time now." Los Angeles' able and crusading Chief William Parker, who has often complained bitterly that the courts are hamstringing...
...Minister." In this nonevangelistic approach, ministers deal with student interests and problems that are mostly secular: sex, rebellion against authority, concern about jobs, the "meaninglessness" of life. Rather than hand down dicta from the pulpit, the clergymen try to help the students work out their own problems in their own way, without departing from the necessity of teaching that there are absolute rights and wrongs. Dealing with an undogmatic generation, some also see the merits of relativism. "You can't tell them what to do," says the Rev. Harwood Bartlett of Georgia Tech. Many campus ministers encourage students...
...problems of these relations. What discourages him most about American audiences is that "they allow themselves to be led, and then listen with only half an ear." While a significant minority has advanced beyond listening to music passively, the majority, has not. To this minority, and away from the "dicta" of concert management, Szigeti has turned. Although he wants to slow the pace of his adventures, he performs gladly for colleges, museums, and music groups. He will soon play the Beethoven concerto in Athens, and then serve as a judge at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...Mississippi, but it should have been no surprise. Once on the bench in a state where only 5% of adult Negroes are registered to vote, Judge Cox, 63, has consistently refused to find any pattern of discrimination. Moreover, he has filled trial transcripts in rights cases with gratuitous obiter dicta. At a hearing last March, he referred to a Negro voting registration drive as "grandstanding"; he repeatedly described 200 applicants as "a bunch of niggers" and called them "chimpapzees" who "ought to be in the movies rather than being registered to vote." Fit for Jail. The latest case to cast...
...based upon the shining faith of the first Christians and not upon Jesus himself, theologians should forget about seeking the earthly Jesus and analyze the formation of the kerygma. "We can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus," Bultmann wrote in one of the shaping dicta of modern theology...